FW: Shemitta and Checking Tefillin and Mezuzos in Elul

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Subject: Shemitta and Checking Tefillin and Mezuzos in Elul

Rav Soloveitchik on Teshuva

View in browser Yeshiva University Center for the Jewish Future August 17-23 • Elul 9-15 This learning on the site this week was sponsored: • for a refuah shleima for Avram Chaim ben Toba Hena • by Shulamith & Joel Cohn and family לזכר נשמת הרבנית בריינע פרדמסקי, Byrdie Predmesky • by Gabriel and Aliza Sosne in honor of the marriage of Yirmi Stein and Adina Sosne • by Michael & Yael Buckstein l'ilui nishmas Raizel Shayna bas Meir Mendel and Yisrael Zvi ben Zev Sponsor a Day of Learning on YUTorah New This Week Rabbi Aryeh Lebowitz The Proper Rosh Hashana Greeting While it may not seem like the most important issue we should be dealing with approaching the Yamim Noraim, it has ramifications that extend far past its face value. Listen Now Listen Now Rabbi Judah Mischel Baderech: Along the Path of Teshuva Our lives are just chapters in a journey that flows from one episode to another. What guides us along the path of Elul that leads us Teshuva? Listen Now Listen Now Rabbi Isaac Rice Shemitah Nowadays: Torah or Rabbinic? On the Person or the Land? Is there any benefit of learning the laws of Shemittah if we aren't going to be able to keep them? Listen Now Listen Now Rabbi Shay Schachter Extending a Hand and Encouraging People in Their Journey of Teshuva How do we help people along in their efforts to improve themselves without hurting their feelings? Listen Now Listen Now Rabbi Zvi Sobolofsky Caring for Children on Shabbos A general overview of common questions that come up when dealing with children that span the gamut of the melachos of Shabbos. Listen Now Listen Now Rabbi Yehuda Willig The Transformative Power of Elul What makes the 40 days between Rosh Chodesh Elul and Yom Kippur such an important time? What's the significance of the number 40? Listen Now Listen Now Featured This Week The Shemittah before Shemittah Even before the year starts, there's rules about what can be done on the ground in preparation for the Shemitta year. Browse the Shiurim Browse the Shiurim Checking Tefillin and Mezuzos in Elul What's behind the custom to check our tefillin and mezuzos now, do we really need to? How often do we need to? And is there a deeper meaning to this custom? Browse the Shiurim Browse the Shiurim Rav Soloveitchik on Teshuva Learn the Rav's penetrating insights to the Teshuva process through his students' shiurim. Browse the Shiurim Browse the Shiurim Kollel & Midreshet Yom Rishon @YUTORAH The program is currently on Summer break. Please enjoy shiurim from our archives. • Abraham Arbesfeld Kollel Yom Rishon • Millie Arbesfeld Midreshet Yom Rishon The Abraham Arbesfeld Kollel Yom Rishon for Men and Millie Arbesfeld Midreshet Yom Rishon for Women are programs of Yeshiva University's Center for the Jewish Future. Daf Yomi @YUTORAH Insights to the Daf with Shiurim for the week of Sukka 35-41 • Rabbi Sammy Bergman: Dyeing, Laundering, and Kindling with Shemitah Produce (39b) • Rabbi Chaim Eisenstein: "How" & "When" to Make the Bracha on the Arbah Minim (39a) • Rabbi Daniel Z. Feldman: Shomea K'Oneh (38b) Care for a Sefer Torah (41b) • Rabbi Yonah Gross: Fascinating Stories of Hard to Find Esrogim (35a) • Rabbi Yehoshua Katz: The Mitzvah of Zecher Le'mikdash (41a) • Rabbi Aryeh Lebowitz: Introduction to Hechsher L'kabel Tumah (35b) Using an Esrog for Schach? (36b) Over L'asyasan by Birchas Hamitzvos (39a) • Rabbi Aryeh Leibowitz: